I Was the Most Wanted Man in China

http://lithub.com/i-was-the-most-wanted-man-in-china/

by lermontov • 10 years ago

152 24 10 years ago

lithub.com

leesalminen• 10 years ago

I'm getting a white screen of death ... perhaps they really want to be like Github, downtime and all ;)

Edit: 503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity ... ouch!

nalllar• 10 years ago

Seems to be down.

Archive.is: https://archive.is/sgTgG

Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:t4otc2...

ISL• 10 years ago

Up for me. Chromium 47, in Seattle. wget pulls the article in ~300ms.

wyldfire• 10 years ago

I get " ERROR 503: Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity." as of Tue Feb 16 23:07:18 UTC 2016

contingencies• 10 years ago

Thanks for the archive.is link: impressively, it's not yet blocked here in China.

prdonahue• 10 years ago

Random question unrelated to article content: is it just me or does Lithub seem to be everywhere (on HN) as of very recently?

sehr• 10 years ago

You can click the domain name under the title and look at all submissions from them, they just had a big one yesterday it seems

oh_sigh2• 10 years ago

I noticed the same thing with gwern posts. I assume what happens is HNers see a random article on the front page, like it, and start browsing the sites archives for other interesting articles. Then they submit them to HN and the process repeats itself.

r-w2• 10 years ago

I’ve noticed it becomes relatively easy to anticipate which articles will reach the front page once I’ve started reading the trending sites. However, I wonder whether there’s any way to anticipate which sites will begin to trend on the front page. My first instinct is that it’s just a matter of circumstance, of one person sharing one article from a non-trending site that trends on the front page. In practice, however, it’s hard for me to believe that such a small event could decide whether or not a story gets covered by a more mainstream site after a journalist finds it—I’ve been seeing quite a few references to Hacker News articles as of late in mainstream news articles. It could be that Hacker News really is the initial component in starting news trends.

tgb2• 10 years ago

Gwern was for a while submitting one article to HN every week and most of them seemed to make the front page. Maybe that's what you're recalling? It was some time ago, though.

DanBC• 10 years ago

No.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lithub.com

a_bonobo• 10 years ago

It's less than a year old (launched April 8 2015), which could explain why you've only recently seen it:

http://www.mhpbooks.com/grove-atlantic-launches-lithub-com/

tgb2• 10 years ago

Excellently written article. Rather amusing too. But I'm left feeling that I don't actually know how this resolved.

(edit: remove dumb question)

Sanddancer• 10 years ago

Yah, I had to read elsewhere to figure out what happened. It's basically an account of what his actions were that led to his exile. A lot of the After has been written about elsewhere, except the parts related to the central government's behind the scenes actions.

After that evening, the hubbub died down. In the coming months, he talked politics with some students, some of whom eventually became leaders of the Tienanmen Square protests. He was never a planner, never a protester, nada. However, when he saw that the Chinese Government started cracking down hard, he realized he was going to be scapegoated for his essays a few months prior, and went into the US embassy. He had been declared the most wanted person even though he had little to do with the actual protests.

kevinwang2• 10 years ago

Looks like it's an excerpt from a book

LaPrometheus• 10 years ago

I am a Chinese. Obviously I don't think Dr Fang is an enemy.

codychan• 10 years ago

Obviously he is not an enemy of the Chinese people, but the enemy of the Party.

hyh1048576• 10 years ago

FANG Lizhi passed away in 2012, I don't understand why they put "February 11, 2016 By Fang Lizhi" at the author field, very misleading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Lizhi

GauntletWizard• 10 years ago

Because the work was written by Fang Lizhi, and was just posted a few days ago. Books are still referred to by their publish date even if they're published posthumously. Why should web articles not be attributed the same way?

r-w2• 10 years ago

But this isn’t a published work; rather, it’s an excerpt from a previously published work.

justicezyx• 10 years ago

Dr. Fang was revered by some for his achievements, but no doubt his departure to an "enemy" country at the time would absolutely make him a public enemy...

df41• 10 years ago

He is a great scientist. I think he is a bit naive in politics. Maybe going to US was what he wanted and was good for him. Nobody knows.

I Was the Most Wanted Man in China

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